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Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 // Jil Larson.
remainder title:	Ethics & Narrative in the English Novel, 1880–1914
Author:	Larson, Jil,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483141
ISBN:	9780511483141 (ebook)

Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 /
Larson, Jil,

Ethics and narrative in the English novel, 1880-1914 /Ethics & Narrative in the English Novel, 1880–1914Jil Larson. - 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Ethics and the turn to narrative -- Victorian history and ethics: anxiety about agency at the fin-de-siècle -- Emotion, gender, and ethics in fiction by Thomas Hardy and the New Woman writers -- When hope unblooms: chance and moral luck in A Laodicean, The mayor of Castorbridge, and Tess -- Oscar Wilde and Henry James: aestheticizing ethics -- Promises, lies, and ethical agency in Joseph Conrad's Under western eyes.

Drawing on interdisciplinary work in the field of ethics and literature by a diverse range of thinkers, including Martha Nussbaum, Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, Jil Larson offers new readings of late Victorian and turn-of-the-century British fiction, she shows how ethical concepts can transform our understanding of narratives, just as narratives make possible a valuable, contextualised moral deliberation. Focusing on novels by Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James, Larson explores the conjunction of ethics and fin-de-siècle history and culture through a consideration of what narratives from this period tell us about emotion, reason, and gender, aestheticism, and such speech acts as promising and lying. This book will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth century and modernism, and all interested in the conjunction between narrative, ethics and literary theory.

ISBN: 9780511483141 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559954
English fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PR878.E67 / L37 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809353

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